student lamp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of student lamp
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Associate Justice Brandeis refused to accept one. plunked down in front of him a battered, goose-necked student lamp of his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
He promptly took off his coat, displaying in the rays of a green-shaded student lamp a pair of forearms worthy of the hands which went with them.
From Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create by Price, Lucien
Beside a student lamp a plump little old lady sat knitting.
From A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today by Raine, William MacLeod
An open book lay upon the desk, and the student lamp cast a full light upon the words that had caught the reader's thoughts after the events of the day and their outcome.
From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
A flood of radiance from the relighted student lamp fell athwart the floor.
From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
